རྒྱ་སེར
Tibetan edit
Etymology edit
From རྒྱ (rgya, “expanse, empire”) + སེར (ser, “yellow”). Compare རྒྱ་ནག (rgya nag, “China”, literally “the black expanse”) and རྒྱ་གར (rgya gar, “India”, literally “the white expanse”); the choice of yellow for Russia is unclear, but may reference the Golden Horde.
Pronunciation edit
- Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲa.ser/
- Lhasa: /ɟa˩˨.seːˑ/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ghyav-see
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ɟa˩˨.seːˑ/
Proper noun edit
རྒྱ་སེར • (rgya ser)
- (historical) Russia (The largest country in the world, a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia)
- Synonym: ཨུ་རུ་སུ (u ru su)
Declension edit
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